executions in the world:

legend:

PALAU

government: constitutional government in free association with the US; the Compact of Free Association entered into force 1 October 1994

state of civil and political rights: Free

constitution: 1 January 1981

legal system: based on Trust Territory laws, acts of the legislature, municipal, common, and customary laws

legislative system: Bicameral Parliament (Olbiil Era Kelulau) consists of the Senate and the House of Delegates

judicial system: Supreme Court, National Court, Court of Common Pleas

religion: Christian majority

death row:

year of last executions: 0-0-0

death sentences: 0

executions: 0

international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (signed only)

situation:Palau abolished the death penalty in 1994.
On December 19, 2016, Palau co-sponsored and voted again in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.

Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.